synchronous detection

From Glossary of Meteorology
The procedure of using a reference waveform in a radar receiver that is exactly synchronized with the carrier frequency.

Specifically, a coherent local oscillator provides a reference signal that is mixed with the incoming signals to recover the amplitudes and phases of the echoes.

An instrument used to detect the presence of and to determine the information carried by electromagnetic radiation.

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